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So would you describe yourself as obsessed or possessed.....or just plain nuts!

 

The Snowdrop obsession I am possessed by is definitely not Nuts. I have a separate Fruit and Nut garden for that

http://kgarden.wordpress.com/projects/fruit-and-nut-walk/

 

You must have a lot of patience to propagate them Kristen. If I only had one bulb I'd plant it and hope for the best......in a good few years!

 

The ones I have, which have not yet gone under the knife!, have doubled up since last year ... so they may double each year. So 4x every 2-3 years, but twin-scaling them will give 8x every 2-3 years. After a decade it starts to make a big difference ... assuming they don't all die on my operating table!

I just see it as another propagation method / technique (although perhaps aided and abetted by the fact that, in my Yooth, I worked in a Tissue Culture lab, so I'm not too shy about the sterilisation and process in general. In fact I quite fancy having a go at kitchen-table-top Tissue Culture - I've even bought and read a book about it )

 

A much more sensible bet, IMHO, would be to stick with the bog standard ones ... they can be had for £70 a thousand, so very quick to naturalise a decent sized woodland area. Even the doubles are only £70 for 500. But I get carried away easily!

 

They're a very good price, but I can't see my back coping with planting a thousand! I prefer the more unusual ones but haven't got the cash flow for their price tags unfortunately.

 

Eurobulbs have several "moderately unusual" at very keen prices. Lady Beatrix Stanley for example 5 for £20 (although that particular one is sold out). Ones like Elwesii (which I have known of for years, but not known its name - very early, and decent strapping like leaves) is 50 for £17. (I've had several thousand Bluebells off them too , so happy to recommend them - they can't count! got loads more than the sticker-price indicated )

http://www.eurobulbs.co.uk/acatalog/snowdrops.html

 

Thanks Kristen. I won't be buying this year now, but I'll be having a look around and thinking for next year.

 

Bought myself some bare root bits last weekend. 1 Mountain Ash, 1 Dog Rose, 1 Purple Berberis and a Goat Willow

and then this weekend I picked up a Standard Olive bush for a fiver as clearance stock from my local homebase.

 

Just gotta be done FC. Tell her indoors that I said,
Jenny

 

Popped into Wilkos in Weymouth and saw a new trolly full of Bromeliads, there were the usual three varieties, Neoregelia, Guzmania and Vreisia all a fiver each but what stood out was one variegated Guzmania, I had to have it!

 

Another bargain and a quality plant, Stephanotis in full bud, £5 at Lidls.